Extension
It Starts With Us
Wellness in Wayne County
Nutrition, Health, and Wellness
T Humble, G. Roberts, D. Shepherd, S. Coffey, D. Adams, S. Hart, G. Hutchison, T. Bertram
Leadership
Local Food Systems
Substance Use Recovery - FCS
The obesity epidemic threatens the quality and years of life of Kentuckians. Obese individuals are at increased risk for many chronic health conditions, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and some types of cancers. The obesity rate in Kentucky increased 90 percent over the last 15 years. Thirty percent of individuals in the Commonwealth report no leisure-time physical activity.
As a result, Kentuckians are dying from heart disease and cancer at higher rates than all Americans and they have a lower life expectancy, 75.5 years, compared to 78 years for Americans. Minorities and individuals residing in Appalachia bear a heavier brunt of the obesity and chronic disease burden.
• Youth and adults maintain positive health habits.
• Youth and adults are at a lower risk for serious disease and illness.
• Youth and adults are at a lower risk for physical and emotional distress.
• Youth and adults are competent, capable, contributing adults as a result of their participation in Extension programs.
Participants improve food management skills and healthy eating habits
Participants will increase average fruit and vegetable consumption by 1 or more servings per day
A decrease in the number of obese and overweight children, youth, adults and elderly
Increase in the practice and promotion of physical activity and healthy eating daily
Improvement in the built environment to promote physical activity and healthy eating
Increase policies that address obesity, physical inactivity and promotion of proper nutrition
•Youth and adults adopt healthy behaviors that lead to a healthy lifestyle that include making healthy lifestyle choices, not engaging in risky behavior and handling stress.
Increase the number of people who:
- Access more local foods
- Redeem Farmer’s Market Nutrition Program benefit.
- Plant, harvest and preserve produce
- Apply improved food preparation skills, food management skills, food safety and healthy eating habits
-Practice of physical activity in families and communities and decreased time spent on sedentary behaviors
-Community members advocate for policy
-Changes related to obesity, physical activity and healthy eating.
-Strengthen community coalitions or partnerships to address obesity, physical inactivity and chronic disease and substance abuse.
-Practice healthy lifestyle decision-making that strengthen individuals’ ability to cope with normal life stressors.
• Youth and adults identify healthy lifestyle choices.
• Youth and adults understand risky behaviors and their consequences.
• Youth and adults aspire to have higher self-esteem.
• Youth and adults identify healthy ways to handle stress.
Learn to grow, prepare and preserve food
Learn to incorporate unfamiliar foods or foods not currently eaten into a healthy diet
Increase knowledge and understanding of healthy eating, food safety and food resource management
Increase knowledge of the value of producing and consuming local fresh fruits and vegetables
Change in awareness, knowledge, opinions, skills, and attitudes needed to make informed choices regarding:
Healthy lifestyle choices
Childhood and youth obesity
Adult weight management
Healthy aging
Practice and promotion of daily physical activity
Policies that reduce the level of obesity
Reduction of chronic disease including substance abuse
Initial Outcome: Participants understand risky behaviors and their consequences.
Indicator: The number of Participants that report not engaging in risky behavior
Method: Evaluation
Timeline: All year as programs are completed
Intermediate Outcome: Participants adopt healthy behaviors that lead to a healthy lifestyle that include making healthy lifestyle choices
Indicator: Participants report making healthy lifestyle choices
Method: Evaluation
Timeline: All year as programs are completed
Long-term Outcome: Participants maintain positive health habits
Indicator: Participants report making healthy lifestyle choices, not engaging in risky behavior, feel good about themselves and report that they know how to handle stress.
Method: Evaluation
Timeline: July 2024 - June 2025
Audience: Youth, families, staff, volunteers, community leaders, partner organizations, collaborators, Kentucky 4-H Youth Development programs are offered to all youth ages 9 – 18, in addition to 4-H Clover Buds, ages 5– 8, and their families, Extension Homemakers, Champion Food Volunteers, Master Gardeners and Junior Master Gardeners, FFA and FCS students Limited resource individuals and families; Families with children, Farmer’s Markets; Schools, HOPE Center, Homemakers, Library, Probation and Parole, Adult Education, Headstart and Preschool Parent Programs, Low Income Families, DCBS, KTAP clients, Horizon Adult Health Care, Community Based Interventions, Health & Wellness Embassadors
Project or Activity: Adopting Healthy Lifestyles for Overall Well-being through Nutrition Education
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Dance Fit, Jump Into Foods and Fitness, LEAP, SPARK, The Organwise Guys, Get Moving Kentucky, Cooking 101 series, Farm to School Curriculum, Recipes for Life, Food Preservations Boot Camps, Aging with Grace program, Farmers Market, Private Pesticide applicator training, Plate it Up Kentucky Proud, Victory Garden, Conduct demonstrations, classes and workshops, distribute information through media and social marketing, provide exhibits, displays, educational materials and curricula, Gardening Programs; Best Practices Training, Farm to Fork Event, Hook and Cook Program, Field to Fork Program, Weight, the Reality Series; UK CES Nutrition Education Program; Home-based Microprocessing; Professor Popcorn; Wellness in Kentucky (WIN) Kentucky; Super Star Chef; Champion Food Volunteers, NEP Curriculum
Inputs: Health core curriculum, Grants will be pursued by individual counties for program implementation, Facilities to be utilized could include: local county extension offices, community centers, schools, churches, child care facilities, etc. The efforts of paid staff will be to make connections with local collaborators to either train staff and/or volunteers to implement programs or to provide the program themselves. It will be a total collaborative effort of community partners with the local extension office to provide funding, space, Extension Greenhouse/High tunnel, FFA School Garden and raised beds at elementary schools Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service (CES) agents, program assistants, specialists and volunteers; Kentucky CES publications and resources; extension resources, Champion Food Volunteers, Health & Wellness Embassadors
Date: July 2024 - June 2025
